The Assassination of Trotsky 1972  R, 103 min.
Genre: Drama / Thriller
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Richard Burton, Alain Delon, Romy Schneider, Valentina Cortese, Enrico Maria Salerno, Luigi Vannucchi, Duilio Del Prete, Claudio Brook, Jean Desailly, Simone Valere, Carlos Miranda, Peter Chatel, Jack Betts, Michael Forest
While exiled in Mexico City, Russian Revolution leader Leon Trotsky (Richard Burton) is the victim of Frank Jacson's (Alain Delon) successful assassination plot. This film involves the final months in Trotsky's life and shows how Jacson, with help from his girlfriend Gita Samuels (Romy Schneider)–who just happens to be one of Trotsky's secretaries–manages to get close enough to Trotsky to kill him.
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Bloodline 1979  R, 116 min.
Genre: Drama
aka: Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline
Director: Terence Young
Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Ben Gazzara, James Mason, Omar Sharif, Michelle Phillips, Romy Schneider, Irene Papas, Gert Frobe, Beatrice Straight, Maurice Ronet
Sidney Sheldon's novel adaptation stars Audrey Hepburn as the head of a pharmaceutical company who must deal with threats on her life.
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Boccaccio '70 1962 N/R, 205 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti
Cast: Marisa Solinas, Germano Gilioli, Anita Ekberg, Peppino De Philippo, Romy Schneider, Tomas Milian, Romolo Valli, Sophia Loren, Luigi Giuliani, Alfio Vita
Based on the style of Boccaccio's tales, four popular Italian directors present four tales celebrating womanhood–nudity and all. Some U.S. prints contain only three of the stories.
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The Cardinal 1963  N/R, 175 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Otto Preminger
Cast: Tom Tryon, Romy Schneider, Carol Lynley, Maggie McNamara, John Saxon, John Huston, Robert Morse, Dorothy Gish, Burgess Meredith, Ossie Davis
A humble Irish-American priest rises to an exalted position in the College of Cardinals. The film won six Academy Award nominations, including Best Director and Supporting Actor (John Huston).
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Cesar and Rosalie 1972 R, 110 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
Director: Claude Sautet
Cast: Yves Montand, Romy Schneider, Sami Frey, Umberto Orsini, Bernard Le Coq, Eva Maria Meineke, Isabelle Huppert, Gisela Hahn, Henri-Jacques Huet, Pippo Merisi
Cesar (Yves Montand) loves Rosalie (Romy Schneider), a divorced woman with a young daughter. Life is good until a former lover of Rosalie's, David (Sami Frey), arrives on the scene. They still love each other, and now we have a threesome in this comedy/drama.
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Good Neighbor Sam 1964  N/R, 130 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: David Swift
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Romy Schneider, Dorothy Provine, Mike Connors, Louis Nye, Charles(2) Lane, Edward G. Robinson, Anne Seymour, Edward Andrews, Tristram Coffin, Robert Q. Lewis, Joyce Jameson, Linda Watkins, Peter Hobbs, Neil Hamilton
Advertising executive Sam Bissell (Jack Lemmon) is happily married to Minerva (Dorothy Provine) when he helps out his neighbor, Janet (Romy Schneider), by pretending to be her husband so she can inherit $15 million. Janet is married but separated from Howard (Mike Connors) and does not want to share the inheritance with him. Many complications arise when Sam's biggest client, Simon Nurdlinger (Edward G. Robinson), uses Sam and Janet as "the ideal married couple" in an ad campaign and features their pictures on billboards throughout the town.
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The Innocents with Dirty Hands 1975 R, 102 min.
Genre: Foreign / Drama
aka: Dirty Hands
Director: Claude Chabrol
Cast: Romy Schneider, Rod Steiger, Paolo Giusti, Jean Rochefort, Hans Christian Blech, Francois Perrot, Pierre Santini, Henri Attal, Serge Bento, Dominique Zardi
Two lovers, Julie (Romy Schneider) and Jeff (Paolo Giusti) kill Julie's alcoholic husband, Louis (Rod Steiger), and do NOT live happily ever after.
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Love at the Top 1974 R, 105 min.
Genre: Foreign / Comedy
aka: The French Way
Director: Michel Deville
Cast: Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Romy Schneider, Jane Birkin, Florinda Bolkan, Henri Garcin, Georges Wilson, Michel Vitold, Jean-Francois Balmer, Dominique Constanza, Estella Blain, Mary Marquet
Meek bank clerk Nicolas (Jean-Louis Trintignant) becomes an overnight success–with women and wealth–when he agrees to take the advice of a struggling novelist (Jean-Pierre Cassel). A so-so comedy.
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The Trial 1963 N/R, 118 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Orson Welles
Cast: Elsa Martinelli, Jeanne Moreau, Anthony Perkins, Romy Schneider, Akim Tamiroff, Orson Welles, Arnoldo Foa, Suzanne Flon, Jess Hahn, Madeleine Robinson
This is the film adaptation of Frank Kafka's classic tale about the imperfections inherent in a judicial system as exemplified by a man who is arrested for an unspecified crime.
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The Victors 1963  N/R, 153 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Carl Foreman
Cast: George Hamilton, George Peppard, Vince Edwards, Eli Wallach, Melina Mercouri, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Peter Fonda, Elke Sommer, Albert Finney
Set during World War II, this is an interesting story of U.S. infantrymen fighting their way through the European theater. Perhaps too long, but shorter (by about 20 minutes) than the original version.
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| 1. The Assassination of Trotsky (1972)
2. Bloodline (1979)
aka: Sidney Sheldon's Bloodline
3. Boccaccio '70 (1962)
4. The Cardinal (1963)
5. Cesar and Rosalie (1972)
6. Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
7. The Innocents with Dirty Hands (1975)
aka: Dirty Hands
8. La Passante (1982)
9. Love at the Top (1974)
aka: The French Way
10. The Trial (1963)
11. Triple Cross (1967)
12. The Victors (1963)
13. What's New, Pussycat? (1965)
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